Vielen Dank für Ihre freundliche Begrüßung. I’m grateful to be here at Goethe University Frankfurt at the invitation of the Bundesbank. As a former university president, I always enjoy returning to the...

Education is one of the surest means we have to end extreme poverty in our time. At the turn of the millennium, the obvious first goal to set was to get all children into school. Developing countries have...

“More than enough work to go around” to meet global challenges, says Kim WASHINGTON, April 7, 2015— World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim today announced a broad strategy to end extreme poverty by 2030,...

Kim says Lessons for Korea are Lessons for the World Seoul, November 4, 2014—World Bank President Jim Yong Kim urged Korean educators and policymakers to better balance the nation’s stellar but stress-loaded...

President Park, Honorable Ministers, Ladies and Gentlemen, Thank you for the warm welcome and kind introduction. It’s wonderful to be back in Korea. I’ve just come from a four-day trip to the Horn of Africa,...

Date: November 4, 2014Type: Speeches and Transcripts Language: English

WASHINGTON, October 8, 2014 – Much more work needs to be done to end poverty and close the gap in living standards between those in the bottom 40 percent and the top 60 percent of the population around...

Education, as we all know, is the key to success, the social equalizer par excellence. Reducing the number of out-of-school children by half over the space of a decade was a tremendous achievement. Yet...

Date: September 24, 2014Type: Speeches and Transcripts Language: English

Question on a World Bank infrastructure fund. DR. KIM: And I would just add that this is at the very early stages of the development of this fund. But I as I said during my remarks, it is very important...

Date: December 4, 2013Type: Speeches and Transcripts Language: English

Thank you, Mr. Secretary General, I couldn’t agree more with the Secretary General. We need to work together so that the people of the Sahel can have both peace and development. The partners he mentioned...

Date: November 1, 2013Type: Speeches and Transcripts Language: English

Thank you for coming to the closing press conference of the 2013 World Bank Group/IMF Annual Meetings. First, a big thank you to the hard-working staff at the World Bank Group, who have spent long hours...

Date: October 12, 2013Type: Speeches and Transcripts Language: English

KAMPALA, May 24, 2013—UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim on Friday ended a three-day historic mission to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Rwanda, and Uganda,...

KINSHASA, DRC, MAY 22, 2013–On the first day of an historic joint United Nations/World Bank Group mission to the Great Lakes region, the World Bank Group announced $1 billion in proposed new funding to...

Ready to support Afghanistan through 2014 transition and beyond KABUL, March 14, 2013—The World Bank Group is strongly committed to helping the people of Afghanistan by promoting growth and reducing poverty...